There is a moral case for Independence

Let me be clear about something I have spoken about before, governments do not have rights, corporations do not have rights, only people have rights. In a democracy, governments and corporations operate within an environment that arises from the consent of the population of the country. Now, I know that in Britain democracy is a farce and both Parliament and the electorate are considered as completely irrelevant by government and the elite who control it, but if we wish to remedy the appalling economic and political mess we are in then we must begin to address some fundamentals, because the British government is now claiming that it has rights, such as the right to access your phone and your emails, to take away all your employment rights, in short, to do whatever they want regardless of public opinion, and most importantly, regardless of centuries old rights. I remind you of the old proverb

The Law is hard on man and woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But lets the greater felon loose
Who steals the common off the goose.

In a proper democracy, the people are sovereign and elect a Parliament to represent them and provide a government. That government, appointed by the Parliament must then be answerable to, and subject to the Parliament, who, in their turn are answerable to and accountable to, the electorate. If the government refuses to be accountable to the elected Parliament, then the Parliament must get rid of it. If both institutions refuse to be answerable or accountable to the electorate, then that electorate have the right to remove or replace them, by force if necessary. The modern argument that there is never an excuse to break the law is not only wrong, it is stupid. It was St Thomas Aquinas who told us that an unjust law is no law at all, and in modern Britain, justice has been abandoned in favour of class and elite interests. A government that refuses to answer to Parliament and the people is a tyranny, and this is the situation we are now confronting in the UK. Not only is government successfully out of control and accountability, so are most of their political agencies, particularly the security services who seriously demand the right to know absolutely everything about everybody. The newly privatised utilities are out of control and Parliament itself is out of control. We are now in a situation where approximately 80% of the population have no trust in Parliament, government, or any politicians. The government now refuses to govern for the people and openly govern exclusively in the interests of the City of London and the financial class, and the police and the security services ensure that they can do so unhindered. In reward, the government lets bankers, the financial class, the police and the security services do practically whatever they want.

Human beings have fundamental rights that give rise to the need for government to protect such rights. Thus, governments are derivative, they derive their roles and functions, and therefore their powers out of the needs of the people they represent. Humans are social and moral animals, and, as a result, there must be moral restraints on power, all forms of power, particularly power that threatens the social and moral order. Thus, rulers have a responsibility to the communities over which they are granted rule, and that rule must be subordinate to the law. As a result, government and parliament, along with every political agency, such as the police and security services, are all responsible to the people from whom they derive their powers and authority, and who finance and sustain them. Their powers are limited by moral law and by the constitutional traditions and conventions inherent in the history of the realm. People possess natural rights that exist prior to government, and any exercise of state power that threatens such rights is by definition illegitimate

Thus, the executive power of the state must always be subordinate to the legislative and that is clearly not the case in the UK. Governments only gain their powers from the consent of the people, and, as this consent is the basis of all political obligation then the people of the society have the right to rid themselves of any form of rule that betrays their trust and the terms of their consent, and, it is no use trying to argue that this is radical socialism or Marxism, or any other form of totalitarianism, this was John Locke who told us these things. He tells us that in the last resort, 'there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them.' The executive power of the state, further, is clearly subordinated by Locke to the legislative, and he is even more explicit in contending that if there is a conflict between the two, the people have the right to reinstate the legislative by force if necessary. Rebellion in all cases of tyrannical government, he argues, 'is no offence before God, but that which He allows and countenances'.

The best form of rebellion we can indulge in is a vote for an Independent Scotland in September. The Westminster Parliament is beyond repair and is ethically, morally and politically corrupt. You have been warned.

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat